A Solano County Superior Court judge will face no charges in connection with an allegation of domestic violence, following completion of an investigation by the State Department of Justice.

The Attorney General”s San Francisco office notified Judge Robert Bower”s via his counsel, Vallejo attorney Dan Russo, that following “additional investigation and careful review,” no charges will be filed in the matter.

Bowers had been arrested by Vallejo police in April and booked into Solano County jail on suspicion of domestic violence but prosecutors opted against filing charges pending further investigation into the accusations made by Bowers” estranged wife. She told police that Bowers had assaulted her during an argument.

Russo said Monday that Bowers is “tremendously relieved and grateful that they did a full and competent investigation,” and said the local jurist just “wants to get back to work.”

Bowers was reassigned from criminal to civil cases after his arrest, but has remained on the bench.

The decision comes on the heels of a ruling last month that the judge also did not violate a convicted sex offender”s right to a fair trial by striking up a social relationship with an alternate juror after the verdict. That ruling concerned Bowers” relationship with a 33-year-old Vallejo woman following the conviction of Jeremy Ray Despois of Vacaville. Despois was convicted in February of repeatedly molesting a 4-year-old girl in Vacaville in 2008 and 2009.

After the jury”s verdict but before Despois was sentenced, Bowers and the alternate juror in the case (who never deliberated on the verdict) began dating.

After his arrest on the domestic violence allegation, Bowers” relationship with the former juror came to light and Despois” attorney filed a new trial motion alleging that due process rights for her client had possibly been breached.

A visiting judge rejected that motion, saying the relationship after the trial could not have affected the verdict and there was no evidence of an improper relationship during the trial.